The late Roger Cowen was educated at the University of
Manchester and received an MBA from Columbia University Business School. He
pursued a very creative and successful business career, and had a wide range of
interests in the arts and communal activities. He died in 1986.
A keen
photographer, Roger Cowen, with Anne Cowen, visited many small provincial
synagogues in the United Kingdom and researched their histories. Their visits to
antiques shops and bookshops proved a pleasurable activity and yielded much of
the material used in this book.